Rosalyn Baxandall
| Rosalyn Baxandall | |
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| Born |
Rosalyn Fraad June 12, 1939 Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Died | October 13, 2015 (aged 76) Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Historian |
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Rosalyn Fraad "Ros" Baxandall, (June 12, 1939 – October 13, 2015), was an American historian of women's activism and an active New York City feminist.
Baxandall was among the early faculty, starting in 1971, at the new campus of the State University of New York at Old Westbury (SUNY). Beginning as Associate Professor of American Studies,. in 1990 she became a full professor there. In 2004 she was awarded a Distinguished Teaching Professorship there. She retired in 2009. Upon her retirement, a scholarship was established in her name and that of Barbara Joseph (the Rosalyn Baxandall and Barbara Joseph Scholarship).
After retirement, she taught at the Labor Studies Program of the City University of New York (CUNY) as well as in a women's prison, Bayview Correctional Facility in Manhattan, through the Bard Prison Initiative.
She was a frequent speaker and commentator on women's liberation, women's activist history, and radical activist movements. Especially in her later years, Ros was a champion for the rights of Palestinians, a commitment that led her to edit an anthology of films about the Palestine-Israel conflict.
Baxandall was born in New York City on June 12, 1939. Her father, Dr. Lewis M. Fraad, was chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Bronx Municipal Hospital, and Assistant Dean of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a part of Yeshiva University. Her mother, Irma London Fraad, was a curator of Middle Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Rosalyn Baxandall has two sisters, Harriet Fraad Wolff, born in August 1941, and Julie Fraad, born 1947.
Baxandall's maternal great uncle, Meyer London, was a U.S. Congressional Representative elected on the Socialist Party ticket in 1915. He was one of 50 Congressmen and six Senators to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. Rosalyn’s uncle, Ephraim London, a labor lawyer, was a distinguished civil libertarian and legal scholar.
She attended Riverdale Country Day School and then Hunter High School, graduating in 1957. After high school she attended Smith College for one year and then the University of Wisconsin-Madison from which she graduated with a major in French in 1961. While at the university, she was active in a struggle for racial integration in housing.
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